Gardener I - Park Maintenance

• Maintains flowers, shrubs, and trees, including cultivating, transplanting, irrigating, pruning, spraying, and fertilizing.
• Maintains turf grass areas, including irrigating, planting, mowing, edging and trimming, controlling diseases and pests, and fertilizing.
• Maintains the cleanliness of walks and other hard surfaced areas by sweeping and hosing with water.
• Removes snow from walks and other areas; maintains litter-free grounds.
• Balls and burlaps trees.
• May be assigned as a park caretaker during the summer.
• Assists with prescribed burns.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. 
• Other related duties may be assigned as needed.

• Some knowledge of the standard tools, equipment, materials, methods, and practices used in gardening and grounds maintenance work.
• Some knowledge of hazards and safety precautions of the work.
• Working knowledge of horticulture, floriculture, symptoms of plant disease, parasites, and insect pests, and of the means and methods used for their control.
• Skill in the use of standard hand and power equipment employed in the propagation and cultivation of garden and grass areas.
• Ability to push and/or pull and operate a standard lawn mower over rough terrain.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 150 pounds with the assistance of another.
• Ability to tolerate outdoors, open grounds, windy conditions, pesticide and herbicide handling.
• Ability to empty trash bags/containers weighing up to 40 pounds and lift them up to 48 inches.
• Ability to shovel snow using a three-pound shovel and lifting up to a ten-pound load 36 inches high and moving it up to six feet.
• Ability to read and interpret instructions and labels, such as on equipment and pesticides
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Ability to maintain a valid Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL). If you are a Canadian or Mexican citizen, you will be required to have or obtain a CDL from your home country. 
• An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.

Required Experience and Training

• Ability to obtain Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL) within first six months of employment. If you are a Canadian or Mexican citizen, you will be required to have or obtain a CDL from your home country.
• A valid drivers' license.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need of a sponsorship.

Preferred Experience and Training

• Six months of experience cultivating and caring for lawns, shrubs and trees.

• One year experience in operating gardening equipment such as mowers, trimmers and edgers.

• A valid Kansas class A commercial driver's license (CDL).